xii, 113 pages 24 cm

Originally submitted as thesis, University of Freiburg, 1916; originally published in 1917 in German, with omissions

Includes bibliographical references

The essence of acts of empathy -- The method of the investigation -- Description of empathy in comparison with other acts -- Discussion in terms of other descriptions of empathy-especially that of Lipps-and continuation of the analysis -- The controversy between the view of idea and that of actuality -- Discussion in terms of genetic theories of the grasping of foreign consciousness -- Discussion in terms of Schler's theory of the grasping of foreign consciousness -- Munsterberg's theory of the experience of foreign consciousness -- The constitution of the psycho-physical individual -- The pure I -- The stream of consciousness -- The soul -- I and living body -- Transition to the foreign individual -- Empathy as the comprehension of mental persons -- The concept of the mind and of the cultural sciences -- The mental subject -- The constitution of the person in emotional experiences -- The giveness of the foreign person -- Soul and person -- The existence of the mind -- Discussion in terms of Dilthey -- The significance of empathy for the constitution of our own person -- The question of the mind being based on the physical body

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